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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/FPU: Fix FPU handling on legacy FPU machines
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On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 23:03 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Obvious Ack to the patch, along with a "how did this ever work
> > before?" comment..
>
> I had a sarcastic sentence in the commit message which I deleted
> later:
>
> "Apparently no one had tried the kernel on a 486er after the FPU
> rewrite. Backwards compatibility is overrated."
>
> :-)
>
> I'm still wondering, though, why didn't the Quark people scream
> earlier... And who knows, it was probably b0rked even before the
> FPU rewrite.
>

Busy with the dayjob :) so I haven't updated on Galileo since

4b696dcb1a55e40648ad0eec4af991c72f945a85 (Feb 28 or so)

but... we'll do a better job keep track of -next to catch this stuff
earlier

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bod

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